If you live in the Mountain West region of the U.S. -- and even if you don't -- don't miss the region's biggest and best Linux festival. Registration is still open for [http://2009.utosc.com/pages/home/ Utah Open Source Conference 2009], to be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Oct. 8-10. This is the third year of this annual event, and Fedora is one of the sponsors.

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Last week saw the annual Utah Open Source Conference, the U.S. Mountain West region's biggest and best Linux festival<ref>http://2009.utosc.com/pages/home/</ref>, held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Oct. 8-10. This is the third year of this annual event, and Fedora is one of the sponsors.

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Fedora will have a booth at the event and those in the area are urged to attend the event and are welcome to help out. For more information on staffing the booth, contact Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-at-fedoraproject-dot-org.

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Fedora had a booth at the event where much media, stickers and assistance from the Fedora Ambassador community was provided to attendees.

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See posts on the Fedora Planet<ref>http://planet.fedoraproject.org/</ref> for reviews and thoughts on the meeting.

Fedora Weekly News Issue 197

Welcome to Fedora Weekly News Issue 197[1] for the week ending October 11, 2009. What follows are some highlights from this issue.

Starting off with announcements, which includes general, development and event announcements, word that the Docs team will be switching to the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA), an update on Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) leadership, and updates on Fedora 12 milestones. In news from the Fedora Planet, selected posts from the Fedora contributor community that includes discussion on "What is Fedora?", mockups for the fedoraproject.org redesign, and discussion on virt-top. In Ambassador news, detail on the Utah Open Source Conference. Translation brings us notification of new members to the Fedora Localization Project, coverage of some discussion around docs.fedoraproject.org issues, and other issues. In Design Team news, a request for more font packagers, discussion around reuse of Fedora Remix logos, and acceptable use cases. There are a few Fedora 10 and 11 security updates in the Security Advisories beat, and the issue rounds out with virtualization news, including more detail on the new virt-top release, and limiting VNC access to a single guest. Read on, and enjoy!

If you are interested in contributing to Fedora Weekly News, please see our 'join' page[2]. We welcome reader feedback: fedora-news-list@redhat.com

The Fedora News team is collaborating with Marketing and Docs to come up with a new exciting platform for disseminating news and views on Fedora, called Fedora Insight. We plan to have the next issue of Fedora Weekly News in Fedora Insight, next week. We welcome your feedback as we migrate FWN to this new content platform!

FEDORA ANNOUNCE LIST

Ian Weller announced[1], "Today, the Docs team finalized the conversion of the licensing of our documentation and project content from the Open Publication License
(OPL) to a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License(CC-BY-SA). Docs originally reached a consensus to change the license in June 2009, and after answering questions raised by the community, the
Docs team decided to go ahead with the transition."

"We'd like to thank Tom 'spot' Callaway, Fedora's legal ninja, and Richard Fontana of Red Hat Legal for their help with the conversion." said Ianweller while talking about continue working with the community and share their
documentation freely.

Resignation of Josh Boyer from FESCo

Jon Stanley regretly announced the resignation of Josh Boyer
from the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo).[1]

Jon said, "It's important to note that the reason for this resignation is that
Josh believes that community leaders should be actively leading in the community. With his other commitments, Josh simply could not make the
time for both FESCo and maintaining a leadership role within the community. This is not the fault of Josh, FESCo in general, or any
member of FESCo in particular. Instead, it represents that Josh is upholding the values that we hold dear in Fedora - openness, honesty,
transparency, and meritocracy."

"Replacing Josh on FESCo, per the succession policy[2]
, will be David Woodhouse, as he was the next highest runner-up in the recent
elections[3]
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FEDORA DEVELOPMENT ANNOUNCEMENTS

Fedora 12 Final Release Date Rescheduled to 2009-11-17

John announced,[2] "The deadline affecting the data center move which was putting a final release date if 2009-11-17 into question has been extended. As a result we are now able to go forward with the original decision from the 2009-10-05 Release Engineering meeting to move the final release date of Fedora 12 to 2009-11-17."
All of the schedules have been updated to reflect these changes.
Key milestones: [3]

Fedora 12 Beta Release Rescheduled to 2009-10-20

John Poelstra announced [1] that the Fedora 12 Beta Release rescheduled[2] to October 20th,2009.

He said,"At the Release Engineering meeting today[3]it was noted that we still do not have a beta RC composed because a few blocker bugs remain.
The decision was made to move the Fedora 12 Beta Release date to 2009-10-20 instead of its scheduled date of 2009-10-13 (one week from Tuesday). The original intention was also to move the final release date of Fedora 12 to 2009-11-17, but that decision has been deferred until Thursday while the Infrastructure team researches some issues related to an upcoming data center move.
The next meeting to determine the final release date for Fedora 12 will be this Thursday, 2009-10-08 at 18:00 UTC (2 PM EDT) in #fedora-meeting. After that meeting all of the detailed Fedora 12 team schedules will be fully updated to reflect the plan of record.
REMINDER: we are in and will remain in FINAL FREEZE for Fedora 12. This is not a new opportunity for more time to continue development work or squeeze more bug fixes into Fedora 12. A new branch is already open where this work can continue for Fedora 13.[4]"

Heads-up: rb_libtorrent bump (Rawhide), rebuilds required

Peter Gordon said[1], "I just pushed an update to rb_libtorrent 0.14.16 in rawhide (F13+),
which bumps the library soname from "libtorrent-rasterbar.so.3" to
"libtorrent-rasterbar.so.5".

Because of this change, applications which use this library will need to
be rebuilt. According to repoquery, these are qbittorrent and
springlobby (maintainers CC-ed). I've successfully rebuilt these two
packages locally (from their CVS devel/ branches) with this update
earlier today and did not see any problems, so I don't expect any issues
in updating.

Packages such as Deluge and Miro which use rb_libtorrent through its
Python bindings remain unaffected by this change.

Please let me know if there are any related problems or questions as
they arise."

FEDORA EVENTS

Fedora events are the source of marketing, learning and meeting all the fellow community people around you. So, please mark your agenda with the following events to consider attending or volunteering near you!

Planet Fedora

General

Richard W.M. Jones added[1] another tool to the virt-* arsenal of tools, virt-top to replace xentop. Also it works in Japenese. Richard also explained[2] some of the difficulties that make Virtual Machine conversions difficult.

Michael Tiemann noted[3] the London Stock Exchange's "about-face in IT policy" in which they are switching to a Linux-based solution.

Máirín Duffy continued[4] the mockups for the fedoraproject.org website redesign. In particular, Máirín wants to "bling your spin"[5]. "We’ve come up with a new spins.fedoraproject.org design. This is part of an overall effort commissioned by the Fedora Project Board to improve the Fedora download experience. The initial design includes individual spin details pages." So don't forget to send in your spin information[6].

Paul W. Frields explained[7] some of the changes that may be taking place due to the Fedora 12 beta being pushed back, and how you can help.

Jeremy Katz took a look[8] at a number of deployment systems. "Given that this seemed like a pretty typical problem, I figured I’d take a look and see what open source projects exist out there to see if any of them were suitable or could be at least close to a good fit for what we need and want. Unfortunately, I was kind of disappointed..."

Ambassadors

Utah Open Source Conference

Last week saw the annual Utah Open Source Conference, the U.S. Mountain West region's biggest and best Linux festival[1], held in Salt Lake City, Utah, from Oct. 8-10. This is the third year of this annual event, and Fedora is one of the sponsors.

Fedora had a booth at the event where much media, stickers and assistance from the Fedora Ambassador community was provided to attendees.

See posts on the Fedora Planet[2] for reviews and thoughts on the meeting.

Get on the map

Want to find the nearest ambassador? How about one in Belarus? Now you can.

Susmit Shannigrahi reports that finding out the nearest ambassadors, which was once a tedious task, is now as simple as viewing a map. The map is at here and instructions on how to place yourself on the map can be found at here.

Fedora 12 is coming

While you may still be promoting Fedora 11 in your areas, you can make plans for Fedora 12 events to promote and celebrate the release of our next version.

As such, with the upcoming release of Fedora 12, this is a reminder that posting an announcement of your event on Fedora Weekly News can help get the word out. Contact FWN Ambassador correspondent Larry Cafiero at lcafiero-AT-fedoraproject-DOT-org with announcements of upcoming events -- and don't forget to e-mail reports after the events as well.

Translation

Issues with docs.fedoraproject.org

Post the redesign of the docs.fedoraproject.org main page, Domingo Becker informed about some errors being displayed in the Installation Guide and Installation Quick Start Guide for Fedora 11[1]. Ruediger Landmann explained that this error was often caused due to complicated format in which .po files needed to be merged and then divided back to suit the requirement of documentation compilation tool, publican[2]. Additionally, he also mentioned that errors such as these can be filed as bugs in bugzilla.redhat.com.

Meanwhile, John J. McDonough has been running automatic updates for the Fedora 12 Release Notes. Translation errors (if any) affecting the build are reported directly to the fedora-trans mailing list[3][4].

Translation Request from Fedora Freemedia

A request to the FLP was put forward by Frank Murphy from the Fedora Freemedia Project, to translate some Freemedia communication[1]. The Chinese (Traditional), Thai and Spanish translations have been submitted so far.

Artwork

Outreach to Font Authors

Máirín Duffy reported[1] on @fedora-fonts about her progress in treeing some fonts "I've contacted a few font authors whose fonts either don't have an explicit license or have an ambiguous/custom license about considering choosing a Fedora-compatible font license". She also wrote a blog post[2] calling for more font packagers "To inspire folks to get involved in packaging, specifically font packaging. Shameless begging font package requests via blog have worked in the past."

Fedora Remix Logos

Peter Robinson asked[1] on @fedora-design about the use of the Fedora Remix logo "And whether someone can package them up into a fedora-remix-logos package to make them easier to use for things like Plymouth boot screens", Nicu Buculei replied[2] saying due to trademark restriction only rendered PNG, not source SVG can pa packaged and Máirín Duffy inquired[3] about the particular use case "Wouldn't you want the Moblin brand to have more weight than the Fedora remix brand? Or are you looking for just a generic 'Fedora Remix' theme without any reference to the particular remix?"

Fedora Virtualization List

New Release virt-top 1.0.4

Richard Jones
announced[1] a new release of virt-top.
"Virt-top[2] looks and acts
like the familiar top(1) command, displays virtual machines, and uses
libvirt so it works with just about every virtualization system out
there. It also has cool features for sysadmins, like you can use it to
log stats into a database or spreadsheet."

Limit VNC Access to a Single Guest

Dennis asked[1]
if it was possible to limit a user to a single guest console rather than the
all guests in a virt-manager instance.

Richard Jones answered that virt-manager doesn't
support that level of authorization[2] yet, but each guest console can be given[3] a
static VNC port number which can be secured with a firewall or ssh port
forwarding.